Frankfurt: 5th Mar: Last Day in Germany

Last day in Germany. Settled all the expenses. The office administrator, Renate showed us an album with with photos from India. She is 53 now, and her boyfriend went to India last year on a month long trip. He went to famous cities in North India, like Delhi, Agra, Pushkar, Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Kolkata etc. Apart from the famous monuments forts etc, the main subjects of his photos were mostly cows on the streets, destitute children, the colourful clothes of women, and the garbage dumps :). Renate was explaining each photo with awe and was asking us whether we see such garbage dumps from our homes in India as well. One photo was of a board besides Ganga, and said 'Keep our Ghats clean'. Renate was specially amused at this and she said that although the ghats were very dirty, people were taking a bath in it. She told me that in Germany they have a certain standard for the amount of germs/bacteria a water body can contain. I explained that the Ganga being a holy river, people specially like to add all sorts of offerings to its water, so it is very tough to maintain it clean.

So with all these lovely memories in mind, I prepared to take my long flight back to my wonderful country... India.